NEW E-BookLETs
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Support MotorCity Boat Werks on Patreon and get access to all my e-books and digital content FREE. Detailed articles and photos explain my tips and tricks, with budgets, materials lists, and design blue prints from my personal notebooks. Acess the Episode Data Base to find specific video episodes on YouTube.
How to Build a Pilothouse for your Sailboat… This e-booklet is twenty-eight pages with more than forty photographs and diagrams, including project budget, materials list, and information on new sail selection.
Consulting
Do you wish you had someone who could answer your questions and help you navigate the challenges of amateur boat building or boat restoration?
Do you have questions about the process and your project –that no one seems to really be able to answer?
Save yourself time, money, and heart-ache with a little advice from someone who’s been there and done all that.
Before YouTube There was a Book
First published in 2006 the book is now in reprint, courtesy of MotorCity Boat Werks YouTube Channel. Filled with over 135 black and white photos and technical illustrations, at 150 pages, this is a real and honest account of owning a classic Alberg 30 fiberglass sailboat. Part memoir and part how-to, this is the real account of a large sailboat restoration.
Werkers who support the channel via Patreon receive all my e-books and digital content FREE.
Autographed Hardcopy available via Pay Pal for $20. Shipping not included. Check online store for direct purchase of e-book without Patreon.
Printed in Magazines
For more than 20 years, my experiences with restored boats have been featured in your favorite sailing and boating magazines. See for yourself.
Most recently PassageMaker Magazine featured MotorCity Boat Werks in the July/August 2024 issue. The ten page article and photospread covers a do-it-yourself trawler adventure across Friesland, Netherlands.
PassageMaker Magazine also featured MotorCity Boat Werks in the November/December 2025 and January/February 2026 issues. This is a two part article and photospread on cruising the Telemark Region, Norway by all electric trawler.
Real experience. Real Restorations.
Now Available on Apple Podcasts & Radio
Listen to the Podcasts
Podcasts are simulcast audio of the YouTube Episodes with behind the scenes commentary and information.
MotorCity Boat Werks also appears as a re-occurring guest on World of Boating Radio Show (syndicated nationally) and Trawler Talk Podcast.
Real Amateur Boat Building & Boat Restoration
What tools? What Measurements? What equipment? You need my boat restoration notes, project sketches, and equipment lists.
